“We look for applications to be integrated into a solution, not the other way around,” says Deresinski, who has spent most of his 13 years in the printing industry working with computers and networking systems among web, sheetfed, and digital houses. “We can’t say, ‘I’ve got Linux–that’s what I want on my prepress network,’ unless we have programmers out there to write the programs for us.”

A key component to Lake County Press’s configuration is built-in redundancy, which eliminates the risk of downtime anywhere in the plant “Everything from our servers to our network switches is redundant; so if one part goes down, another picks up,” Deresinski says. “We have failover firewalls, mirrored disks, and backups upon backups of job data and operating systems on …